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From: AgentM <agentm@themactionfaction.com>
To: pgsql-performance@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: slow transfer speeds with PostgreSQL
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 15:02:09 -0400
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On Aug 3, 2006, at 19:39 , hansell baran wrote:
> When we run the following query "SELECT * FROM big_table", we get  
> the following resutls:
> Very different results are obtained if a the query "SELECT * from  
> big_table ORDER BY "some_column"". In this scenario

You should perform your test with queries which are identical or  
similar to the queries which the database will really be seeing.  
Anything else isn't really relevant for tuning because different  
configurations cater to different types of workloads.

-M

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